Drawing the Wild Honey Wholefoods Shop on Little Clarendon Street, Oxford

May 31, 2023.Reading time 1 minute.

Little Clarendon Street is just north of the city centre in Oxford. Its a street of eateries, cafe’s and bars and a few other shops set amongst various University buildings. Rather than indulge in the cafe society my interest was instead in drawing the Wild Honey Wholefoods shop. Here is a view of the shop-front. […]

Drawing The Last Bookshop, Oxford

May 22, 2023.Reading time 1 minute.

Over the past few days I’ve been doing some sketching around around the north of the city centre, mostly around what could loosely be called ‘the student quarter’ – otherwise known as little Clarendon Street. In amongst the bars and eateries there are some interesting shops – and one of these is ‘The Last Bookshop’ […]

The Cowley Road Baptist Centre, East Oxford

May 13, 2023.Reading time 3 minutes.

The Cowley Road in east Oxford turns out to be one of the more rewarding places for me to sketch and I’ve done a few posts from this busy and jumbled road (thumbnails and links at the end). My latest is a view of the Baptist centre which I think also doubles as an arts […]

Watlington and southern Oxfordshire Artweeks

May 11, 2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

On a day of some sunshine and big showers I set off to explore some of the Artweeks events in Southern Oxfordshire. For me, this is largely a matter of trying to be more organized, as with dozens of different exhibitions in different parts of the county at different times it is easy to miss […]

A view of St John’s, Cirencester

May 8, 2023.Reading time 2 minutes.

Cirencester is about an hour’s drive from Oxford, so a bit of a trek but usually worth it. Over the years I’ve visited several times and have done a few sketches and watercolours of the town, but now looking through my previous posts I don’t seem to have posted any of them. So here is […]

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